Stranded sea turtles in the southern Gulf of Mexico

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: Guzmán-Hernández, V., Rivas-Hernández, G., García-Alvarado, P.A., Huerta-Rodríguez, P., Peralta-Jiménez, X. Dataset credits: Guzmán-Hernández, V., Rivas-Hernández, G., García-Alvarado, P.A., Huerta- Rodríguez, P., Peralta-Jiménez, X. Abstract: The long-term recording of stranded and dead sea turtle individuals in those critical habitats is crucial for management and restoration action planning. In Mexico, some multiple-year operating conservation programs count with a long-term sea turtle mortality database, as in Campeche, Mexico, where some of the largest hawksbill nesting populations in the West Atlantic reside. This dataset is a historic reference baseline about the spatiotemporal mortality patterns of the imperiled sea turtle species in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, showing their interactions with anthropogenic activities and circumstances that jeopardize their population recovery.

Data Records

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Guzman, V. and E. Cuevas. 2024. Stranded sea turtles in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Version 1.1.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/7c9b904e.

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9cfd83c0-0128-44c8-a511-ceb1a38cf980.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Marine Biology; Visual sighting; Marine Animal Survey; Sea turtles; Visual Sighting; Land-based; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2290 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2290/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2290/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Vicente Guzman
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
Convención Interamericana para la Protección y Conservación de las Tortugas Marinas (CIT)
Eduardo Cuevas
  • Originator
  • Secondary contact
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Oceans,Gulf of Mexico

Bounding Coordinates South West [18.442, -92.18], North East [20.7, 90.668]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Species Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Chelonia mydas (Green sea turtle), Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback sea turtle), Eretmochelys imbricata (Hawksbill sea turtle), Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's ridley)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1992-05-05 / 2022-05-12

Project Data

No Description available

Title Stranded sea turtles in the southern Gulf of Mexico
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Vicente Guzman
  • Owner
Eduardo Cuevas
  • Originator

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_2290
Collection Identifier zd_2290
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Guzmán-Hernández, V., Rivas-Hernández, G., García-Alvarado, P.A., Huerta-Rodríguez, P., Peralta-Jiménez, X. 2024. Stranded sea turtles in the southern Gulf of Mexico. State database, Campeche, MXDigital.

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS.

Purpose

To contribute to the scientific and decision-making stakeholders with historical data regarding interactions between endangered sea turtle individuals and suspicious anthropic activities. This dataset aims to foster further research for proposing management actions and promote the relevance of having long-term monitoring data for robust strategies and decision-making in any region.

Alternative Identifiers https://doi.org/10.82144/7c9b904e
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/9cfd83c0-0128-44c8-a511-ceb1a38cf980
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2290
https://obis.org/dataset/e283f222-4b87-46a8-975f-1f49f5c1cfe8
9cfd83c0-0128-44c8-a511-ceb1a38cf980
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2290